On our noon walk  in Hanover yesterday, we encountered four Evening  
Grosbeaks in the neighborhood between CRREL and the Ray School. Other  
highlights were a Chipping Sparrow in the same area, and a singing  
Brown Creeper at the intersection of Reservoir Road and the entrance  
to Storrs Pond. Cedar Waxwings are still enjoying the fruit trees near  
the Ray School.

Closer to home we have a Ruffed Grouse drumming just west of our  
house, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker hammering on a birdhouse, a Red- 
bellied Woodpecker still putting in an occasional appearance, and  
several American Woodcock peenting and displaying along Skyline Drive  
and East Camp Hill Road.

Marianne and Mike Walsh
Weathersfield, VT